Multi-annual Country Strategies: do they add up to the Dutch contribution to SDG 6?
Published on: 21/08/2018
In the process of writing the Multi-annual Country Strategies: does the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs consider the WASH strategy?
Dutch government renews partnership with IRC in support of the Sustainable Development Goal for water and sanitation
Published on: 18/07/2017
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs contributes 4.8 million euros to fund IRC's programmatic aims.
Dutch government renews partnership with IRC in support of the Sustainable Development Goal for water and sanitation
Published on: 18/07/2017
The Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs will contribute 4.8 million euros to fund IRC's programmatic aims over the next five years.
Phase out strategies in the WASH sector
Published on: 04/04/2017
Max Foundation and IRC invite you to discuss sustainability and domestic resource mobilisation when aid ends.
Watershed – looking ahead
Published on: 12/10/2016
In the first nine months of the strategic partnership Watershed – empowering citizens context analysis and stakeholder and factor analyses have been carried out. These analyses will give direction to the partnership's activities for the coming months.
The data revolution into practice
Published on: 12/10/2016
Akvo's lunch lecture at the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Recognition of the Dutch government's support to Ebola
Published on: 31/08/2016
The governments of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea thank the Dutch government for its support
Minister Ploumen moet op herkansing
Published on: 20/06/2016
Een blog voor Vice Versa door Stef Smits. Afgelopen week kwamen de uitslagen van de eindexamens. Minister Ploumen kan haar vlag met boekentas nog niet uithangen. Als ik zo haar rapport en cijferlijst bekijk, moet ze voor tenminste één van haar hoofdvakken – water – op herkansing, schrijft Stef...
Creating better schools and happier students - IRC and Football for Water
Published on: 21/03/2016
On 17 March, IRC made a key presentation on factors that enhance and hinder effective WASH in school programs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in The Hague. This was for a Kenyan delegation from Nakuru who were in the Netherlands for the Football for Water programme.
Joining forces; The Netherlands and the World Bank
Published on: 29/06/2015
Together the Netherlands and the World Bank can make a substantive contribution to reaching a joint vision; sustainable and equitable water and sanitation services for all by 2030. The World Bank sees the Netherlands as a leading knowledge provider in the water sector. Dutch expertise can...
The Dutch urge ‘World Bank take a lead in driving change’
Published on: 22/06/2015
The new agenda for the future of water and sanitation, defined by the Sustainable Development Goals, aims at universal access for all by 2030. Achieving this mission will require a radical shift in how the water and sanitation sector operates. The main Dutch water and sanitation stakeholders urge...
Bottom’s up; country monitoring as the bedrock
Published on: 12/05/2015
While reviewing experiences with the UN-Water Global Analysis and Assessment of Sanitation and Drinking Water (GLAAS), it is clear that there is a need to strengthen systematic, comprehensive, country-led processes which feed global monitoring.
Taking sustainability of investments in the WASH sector seriously
Published on: 14/04/2015
IRC was asked by DGIS to support the Netherlands Enterprise Agency with the introduction of sustainability instruments as part of the second round of the Sustainable Water Fund. Another example of how DGIS is taking sustainability of investments in the WASH sector seriously.
Experiences with sustainability instruments : clauses, checks and compacts for ensuring WASH Services
Sustainability instruments contribute to better water, sanitation of hygiene (WASH) projects but still face shortcomings.
USAID's hat tip to the Dutch on sustainability
Published on: 24/03/2015
USAID's Global Water Coordinator Chris Holmes welcomes the recent passage of the Water for the World act, while confirming his agency's commitment to sustainable service delivery
WASH IT! alliantie: een van de 25 strategische partners van het Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken
Published on: 09/02/2015
DEN HAAG, 4 februari 2015 - WASH IT! kondigt trots aan dat zij geselecteerd is als een van de 25 strategische partners van het Nederlandse Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken voor 2016-2020.
A Swedish smorgasbord of sustainability: compacts, checks and clauses
Published on: 01/10/2013
Sustainability checks applied by DGIS in its last five years of WASH funding get a cautiously optimistic review.
Sustainability checks, clauses and compacts - USAID and DGIS lead the way
Published on: 10/04/2013
Over the past year, there has been quite a bit of buzz in the WASH sector on the sustainability clause that DGIS seeks to include in its contacts with implementers. The pros and cons of this have been widely debated . A key component of the clauses is to have sustainability checks as a way to...
Don't shoot the messenger, but embrace the sad stats
Published on: 09/10/2012
Driven amongst others by the mobile phone applications, more and more statistics are becoming available on the state of water services. These go well beyond the coverage data we were used to in the JMP reports (and which this year gave us some reason to be mildly optimistic). The new stats provide...